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How I built my tiny SaaS from idea to first 15+ paying customers

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Two things:

- First: congratulations! your platform looks really nice!

- Second: for anyone reading, want a billion dollar idea? create a platform like stripe that works in uruguay and all latin america (stripe only has a beta in Brasil) and allows subscriptions (Paypal which the author cites, doesn't allow them, and forces him to charge a single paymet for one year)

I like your idea! Can't implement it at this point in time -- but it sounds like a good idea!

oh please do it! so many people NEED that platform. If you want more information, for example mercadopago (the financial arm of mercadolibre) which is the leading fintech in Argentina doesn't allow charing cards from the united states (or countries outside latam). Which for SAAS is terrible

Oh I've been looking at MercadoPago too, didn't know they don't allow charging US cards (not an option then).

- Thank you! - I've actually thought about that. There's Stripe Atlas though, which I'm probably going to use eventually.

Why isn't stripe working there?

Congratulations on launching! Now that the product's launched, are you planning to go back to a day job?

Thanks for including a shot of your Sketch mockup; when I learned HTML/CSS/JS, it was 2014, and the "wireframe to HTML" craze was in full swing, and discouraged the creation of mockups.

Having built some sites since then, I cannot say enough about the value of using something like Sketch or Figma to design the site first. This means creating the style guide (typographic scale, primary/secondary colours, layout), mocking up some pages, and figuring out if you're happy with it. Only then do I start writing the HTML and CSS.

Before that, I'd code everything first and always feel like the design was off, but I didn't know why. Building it out in a prototyping tool helps you visualize the site much better, and when it's time to code, you will already have the color codes, font sizes, line-heights etc. ready to paste into the CSS.

Thanks! I hope not but it's an option. I still have savings for a couple more months, which should be enough time to launch the 1.0 version I have in mind, I'll see how that goes first.

Cool! Agreed, although I do a lot of iteration in the code at later stages I find it useful for exploring different style options and setting a general design direction at the beginning. Indeed, it's much easier to not have to worry about design when you're on a coding mindset.

Well done, all the best for the future mate!!1

Thank you!

Very smooth experience, this is really easy to use and unobtrusive. Kudos on launching this and best of luck with it!

Glad to hear that, thank you!

Thanks for sharing the process.

Thanks for the comment!

Is this Hugo for non-developers?

That's a good way to put it (I had the idea while using Jekyll for my own blog).

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